Customs official warns against recent actions by the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

In a letter to the General Court, Edward Randolph describes the actions as “tending to the prejudice of the Sovereign’s rights,” and that the colony’s charter will be revoked unless agents are sent to London to pledge obedience to the King. The agents are sent, but their response is not satisfactory. Randolph returns to England in February 1683 and makes 13 charges against the Massachusetts Bay Colony, accusing it of assuming powers not authorized in its charter, in June 1683.*