Wolsey found it necessary to write to his royal master more than once to contradict the mis-representations of his opponents. The King had been informed that monks and abbots had been turned out to starve. Wolsey declared that what he had done was "to the full satisfaction, recompense and joyous contentation" of all concerned. The King complained that some of the monasteries would not contribute to his necessities as much as they had contributed to the Cardinal's scheme. Wolsey replied that he had indeed received "from divers mine old lovers and friends right loving and favourable aids towards the edifying of my said College," but added that these had been justly obtained and exaggerated in amount. But he promised in future to take nothing from any religious person. Meantime he had set about building Cardinal's College with extraordinary energy and on an enormous scale. The foundation stone was laid on 15th July 1525. Whilst the Chapter-house and refectory of the old monastery were kept, the western bays of the church were removed to make way for the great quadrangle. The Chapel of S. Michael at South Gate was demolished, and part of the old town wall was thrown down. Room was thus made for the buildings on the south side of the quadrangle. These, the first portion of the college to be finished, were the kitchen and that hall which, in its practical and stately magnificence, can scarcely be equalled in England or surpassed in Europe. But the fact that it was the kitchen and dining-room which first reached completion gave an opportunity to the wits. "Egregium opus. Cardinalis iste instituit Collegium, et absolvit popinam." So runs one epigram, which being freely translated is: "The Mountains were in labour once, and forth there came a mouse;-- Your Cardinal a College planned, and built an eating-house!" It was part of Wolsey's design to gather into his college all the rising intellect of Europe. In pursuance of this plan, he induced certain scholars from Cambridge to migrate thither. But they it was, so men afterwards complained, who first introduced the taint of heresy into Oxford. For at first the University was as strictly orthodox as her powerful patron, who hated "the Hellish Lutherans," could wish. When Martin Luther (1517) nailed his ninety-five theses on the church door of Wittenberg, in protest against what Erasmus had called "the crime of false pardons," the [Illustration: Cloisters, Christ Church]