The King therefore ordered the Governor to grant a Virginia Assembly, which in turn should dutifully enter into partnership with him--upon his terms.

So the Virginia Assembly thus came back into history.

It made a "Humble Answere" in which, for all its humility, the King's proposal was declined.

The idea of the royal monopoly faded out, and Virginia continued on its own way.
The General Assembly, having once met, seems of its own motion to have continued meeting.

The next year we find it in session at Jamestown, and resolving "that we should go three severall marches upon the Indians, at three severall times of the yeare," and also "that there be an especiall care taken by all commanders and others that the people doe repaire to their churches on the Saboth day, and to see that the penalty of one pound of tobacco for every time of absence, and 50 pounds for every month's absence...