What leads up to this revolution ?" Mr.Drummond answered: "The two main grievances are the English navigation acts and the grant of authority to the English noblemen to sell land titles and manage other matters in Virginia.

Why, the king hath actually given to Lord Culpepper, a cunning and covetous member of the commission, for trade and plantations, and the earl of Arlington, a heartless spendthrift, 'all the dominion of land and water called Virginia, for the term of thirty-one years.' We are permitted by the trade laws to trade only with England in English ships, manned by Englishmen." "Is it such a great grievance to the people ?" "It is foolish and injurious to the government as well as to ourselves.
The system cripples the colony, and, by discouraging production, decreases the English revenue.

To profit from Virginia they grind down Virginia.

Instead of friends, as we expected, on the restoration, we are beset by enemies, who seize us by the throat and cry: 'Pay that thou owest!'" "To these grievances are added the confinement of suffrage to freeholders, which hath disfranchised a large number of persons," put in Mr.Drummond.
"Also the failure of the governor to protect the frontier from the Indians," added Mr.Cheeseman.

"These heathen have begun to threaten the colony." "What cause have they for taking up the hatchet ?" asked Robert.