The factions...

are grown so violent that Guelfs and Ghibellines were not more animated one against another!" * In his work on "Joint-stock Companion", vol.II, pp.

266 ff., W.R.Scott traces the history of these acute dissensions in the Virginia Company and draws conclusions distinctly unfavorable to the management of Sandys and his party .-- Editor.
Believing that the Company's sessions foreshadowed a "seditious parliament," James Stuart set himself with obstinacy and some cunning to the Company's undoing.

The court party gave the King aid, and circumstances favored the attempt.

Captain Nathaniel Butler, who had once been Governor of the Somers Islands and had now returned to England by way of Virginia, published in London "The Unmasked Face of Our Colony in Virginia", containing a savage attack upon every item of Virginian administration.
The King's Privy Council summoned the Company, or rather the "country" party, to answer these and other allegations.