 In June 1630 he was again contending against the tonnage and poundage, having brought from Virginia to Tilbury a vessel laden ‘with that drug called tobacco’.In 1634 he was sued for breach of contract, after he had undertaken to carry some settlers to the new colony of Carolina, but through some mismanagement they had been deposited in October 1633 in Virginia, where they remained without further transport till the following May.Vassall was still imprisoned in the Fleet prison in 1636 while proceedings continued against him.