The churches of St. Michael and St. Peter, Cornhill, were both built by Wren, except the tower of the former, which escaped the Great Fire, but was rebuilt some fifty years after that terrible event. St. Peter's possesses a rood-screen, a great rarity, and seldom found except in our old country churches. From the pamphlet which records the doings of the Puritans, and which we have before mentioned, we find the rector of St. Michael's, Cornhill, "Dr. Brough, sequestered, plundered; wife and children turned out of doors; his [Illustration: ST. MICHAEL'S CHURCH, CORNHILL.] wife dead with grief; Mr. Weld, his curate, assaulted, beaten in the church, and turned out." At St. Peter's, Cornhill. "Dr. Fairfax, sequestered, plundered; imprisoned in Ely House and the ships; his wife and children turned out of doors." One of the first Christian churches built in England is supposed to have been St. Peter's, Cornhill. The present church contains an ancient tablet which bears the following inscription: "Be it known unto all men that the year of Lord God. C.lxxix., Lucius, the first Christian king of this land, then called Britain, founded the first church in London, that is to say, the church of St. Peter, upon Cornhill," &c. &c. The inscription runs on to the coming of Augustine, and the making of Milletus bishop of London, &c. We give an engraving of St. Michael's, Cornhill, the tower of which is a copy of the one that escaped the fire; the upper portion is very beautiful--pity it is hidden by the houses in St. Michael's-alley.