<P> After 1620, with growing demand for tobacco on the continent, the Company arranged to sell Virginia tobacco in the Netherlands, but the next year and despite company pleas to maintain the privilege of freedom of trade, the Privy Council forbade the export of any product of Virginia to a foreign country until the commodities had been landed in England, and English duties had been paid . By 1621, the Company was in trouble; unpaid dividends and increased use of lotteries had made future investors wary . The Company debt was now over £ 9,000 . Worried Virginians were hardly reassured by the advice of pragmatic Treasurer Sandys, who warned that the Company "cannot wish you to rely on anything but yourselves ." In March 1622, the Company's and the colony's situation went from dire to disastrous when, during the Indian massacre of 1622, the Powhatan confederacy killed one - quarter of the European population of the Virginia colony . </P> <P> When the Crown and company officials proposed a fourth charter, severely reducing the Company's ability to make decisions in the governing of Virginia, subscribers rejected it . King James I forthwith changed the status of Virginia in 1624, taking control of it as a royal colony to be administered by a governor appointed by the King . The government's colonial policy of export restrictions however, did not change . The Crown approved the election of a Virginia Assembly in 1627 . This form of government, with governor and assembly, would oversee the colony of Virginia until 1776, excepting only the years of the English Commonwealth . </P> <P> Bermuda had been separated from the Virginia Company in 1614, when the Crown briefly took over its administration . In 1615, the shareholders of the Virginia Company created a new company, the Somers Isles Company, which continued to operate Bermuda . It was subsequently, also known officially as The Somers Isles (for the Admiral of the Virginia Company, Sir George Somers) until being dissolved in 1684 and made a royal colony . </P> <P> The instructions issued to Sir Thomas Gates, on 20 November 1608, called for a forcible conversion of Native Americans to Anglicanism and their subordination to the colonial administration . The records of the company record a discussion during one of its first meetings about publishing a justification of their business enterprise methods to "give adventurers, a clearness and satisfaction, a public debate where Catholics and neutrals might attack them . Whereas Catholic arguments would be in support of Spanish legal claims to the New World under the Treaty of Tordesillas, it was feared that the neutral "pen - adversaries" might "cast scruples into our conscience" by criticising the lawfulness of the plantation ." It was decided to forego such a publication of a justification . </P>

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