 He resigned in 1863, and settled at Norwich, in order to devote his whole time to study.Twelve years later he completed the "Origenis Hexaplorum quae supersunt" (Oxford, 1867–1875), now well known as "Field's Hexapla", a text reconstructed from the extant fragments of Origen's work of that name, together with materials drawn from the "Syro-hexaplar version" and the "Septuagint" of Robert Holmes and James Parsons (Oxford, 1798–1827).Field was appointed a member of the Old Testament revision company in 1870.