Here are the Companies of the Tallow and Wax Chandlers, the Armorers and Girdlers, Cordwayners and Carpenters, Masons, Plumbers, Founders, Poulterers, Cooks, Coopers, Tylers and Brick Layers, Bowyers and Vinters, Merchant Taylors, Blacksmiths and Weavers, Mercers, Grocers, Turners, Gardeners, Dyers, Scriveners, Fruiterers, Plaisterers, Brown Bakers, Imbroiderers, Musicians, and many more.
The first Council appointed by the new charter had fifty-two members, fourteen of whom sat in the English House of Lords, and twice that number in the Commons.

Thus was Virginia well linked to Crown and Parliament.
This great commercial company had sovereign powers within Virginia.

The King should have his fifth part of all ore of gold and silver; the laws and religion of England should be upheld, and no man let go to Virginia who had not first taken the oath of supremacy.

But in the wide field beside all this the President--called the Treasurer--and the Council, henceforth to be chosen out of and by the whole body of subscribers, had full sway.

No longer should there be a second Council sitting in Virginia, but a Governor with power, answerable only to the Company at home.