Increasing estrangement between the colony and England resulted in the annulment of the company's charter in 1684 and the substitution of royal government under a new charter granted in 1691. The charter of 1691 merged the Plymouth colony and Maine into the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
This impacted the power of the roman catholic church by calling the people to pray, aswell as organizing religious trecks and creating a petition to stop the pestilence
