[Winthrop was overconfident. The Watertown men must soon have recovered from the browbeating he had given them. May 1, Winthrop called together the Assistants informally at his house, and warned them "that he had heard the people intended at the next court to desire that the Assistants might be chosen anew every year, and that the governor might be chosen by the whole court, and not by the Assistants only. Upon this, Mr. _Ludlow grew into a passion, and said that then we should have no government, but there would be an interim wherein every man might do what he pleased_." The others, however, did not anticipate quite such deplorable results, and wisely concluded to submit. The results appear in the following entry.] [May 8, 1632.] A general court at Boston. Whereas it was (at our first coming) agreed, that the freemen should choose the assistants, and they the governour, the whole court agreed now, that the governour and assistants should all be new chosen every year by the general court, (the governour to be always chosen out of the assistants;) and accordingly the old governour, John Winthrop, was chosen; accordingly all the rest as before, and Mr. Humfrey and Mr. Coddington also, because they were daily expected.... ... A proposition was made by the people that every company of trained men might choose their own captain and officers; but the governor giving them reasons to the contrary, they were satisfied without it. Every town chose two men to be at the next court, to advise with the governour and assistants about the raising of a public stock, so as what they should agree upon should bind all, etc. [The facts about this meeting of the General Court are given even more briefly in the _Records_, but in agreement with these statements of Winthrop. The _Records_ omit, naturally, all reference to the preceding action at Watertown, which explains these reforms. The freemen had now recovered the right to choose all magistrates annually, together with some direct local control over taxation; but the lawmaking power was still retained, unconstitutionally, by the Assistants.] 65. Legislation and Administration by the "Assistants," 1630-1633 _Records of Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay_, I (under dates given). These extracts show the moral and economic ideas of the ruling class. The extracts are all taken from records of the _Courts of Assistants_, meeting at Charlestown or Boston. (1) [_August 23/September 2, 1630._ The first "court" after the arrival of Winthrop.] ... It was ordered that carpenters, joyners, brickelayers, sawers, and thatchers shall not take above 2 _s._ a day, nor any man shall give more, under paine of X _s._... (2) [_September 28/October 8, 1630._]