Massachusetts Bay Colony Charter is revoked in London.

Lords of Trade and Plantations vacate the charter by issuing a quo warranto warrant, which customs official Edward Randolph brings to Boston in October. In November, the Court of Assistants votes to subordinate themselves to the Crown, but the Deputies refuse to concur. According to Thomas Hutchinson, if both houses of the entire had agreed to appease the Crown, “They might have reassumed their charter, as Rhode Island and Connecticut did their respective charters, – there having been no judgment against them.” .