Accordingly, when the general court met in July, 1635, Haynes now being governor, it entered an order giving them till next court to make satisfaction for their conduct.

At the same court a petition of the Salem church for some land in Marblehead Neck was rejected "because they had chosen Mr.
Williams their teacher." Affairs had now drawn to a crisis.

The Salem church wrote a letter to all the other churches protesting against their treatment, and Williams notified his own church that he would not commune with them unless they declined to commune with the other churches of the colony.
When the general court met in September, Salem was punished with the loss of representation, and thereupon gave way and submitted.

Not so Williams.

In October, 1635, he was again "convented," and on his refusing, in the presence of all the ministers of the colony, to renounce his opinions, he was banished from Massachusetts.