By keeping down the factional feeling.
"The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him"
Paul Leicester Ford
The public offices were heavily burdened with lucrative sinecures, which were used in the factional contests to buy support in Parliament, as were also peerages, contracts, and money bribes.
"The Wars Between England and America"
T. C. Smith
The bitterest factional strife in the history of the London adventurers soon followed.
"The Virginia Company Of London, 1606-1624"
Wesley Frank Craven