The Vane forces struggled hard, but were badly defeated, and Winthrop was restored to his former office as governor, while the stern Thomas Dudley was made deputy governor.

Vane and his assistants, Coddington and Dummer, were defeated and "quite left out," even from the magistracy.[13] Secure in the possession of power, the legalists now proceeded to suppress the opposing party altogether.

An order was passed commanding that no one should harbor any new arrival for more than three weeks without leave of the magistrates.

This was to prevent any dangerous irruption of sympathizers with Mrs.Hutchinson from England, and it was applied against a brother of Mrs.Hutchinson and some others of her friends who arrived not long after.
August 3, 1637, Vane sailed for England, and thenceforward the Hutchinson faction, abandoned by their great leader, made little resistance.

In the latter part of the same month (August 30) a great synod of the ministers was held at Newtown, which was the first thing of the sort attempted in America, and included all the teaching elders of the colony and some new-comers from England.