Royal commissioner Edward Randolph arrives in Boston.

Randolph reviews and substantiates complaints that Massachusetts is violating its charter, continuing to print coins, and ignoring the Plantation Duty Act, and subsequently reports his findings the Lords of Trade and Plantations. But he returns very impressed with the Port of Boston, writing, “It is the great care of the merchants to keep their ships in constant employ, which makes them trye all ports to force a trade, whereby they abound with all sorts of commodities, and Boston may be esteemed the mart town of the West Indies.”