324 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. " may be again restored : So shall many hearts be made " glad ; and we shall evermore pray for your honour's long " and happy state. Your honour's poor suppliants ever to " command, ofthe parish of Aldermary, in London.". How long Mr. Field continued under the ecclesiastical censure, or whether he was ever restored to his charge at Aldermary, appears extremely doubtful. The next account we meet with of this excellent divine, is, that in 1582, he was engaged, with several other learned men, in a disputation with certain papists in the Tower ; but our information is so extremely scanty, that he is only said to have taken an active part in those learned disputa- tions,f and to have collected and published an account of them, after it had undergone the examination of the persons who engaged. In 1584, we find him brought into other troubles, when he was suspendedby the Bishop of London. The cause of his suspension was, his admitting an assembly of ministers at his house, among whom were several Scotch divines. These divines being disaffected to the hierarchy, the assembly was declared to be an unlawful conventicle. Mr. Field was, therefore, suspended from his ministry, for entertaining them, and the rest were deprived for refusing subscription.t How long he continued under suspension, and whether he was ever restored, is very uncertain. He died in February, 1587, when his remains were interred in Cripplegate church, London. Mr. Field, a short time before his death, united with hisbrethren in subscribing the " Book of Discipline."§ His Woutts.-1. Prayers and Meditations for the use of private Families, 158L-2. A Caveat for Parsons Howlet, concerning his untimelye Flighte, and Scrichingin theclear DayLighte of theGospel, necessarie for him, and all the rest of that darke Brood, and uncleane Cage of Papists, 1581.-3. Expositionof the Symbol of the Apostles, 1581.-4. A godly Exhortation, by occasion of a late Judgment of God at Paris Garden, 1583.-He published Translations of many of Calvin's Sermons, and the productions ofother learned men. JOHN HUCKLE was pastor of the church at Aythorp Roding in Essex, but prosecuted by Bishop Aylmer, for nonconformity. Mr. Strype is pleased to stigmatize him as a busybody, an enemy to the peace of the church, a MS. Register, p. 285. Strype's Annals, vol. ii. p. 641.-Life of Parker, p. 219.-Churton's Life of Nowell, p. 278. MS. Register, p. 460, 568, 569. § Neal's Puritans, vol. i. p. 423.
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