On 19 December 1599 he was made a prebendary of Christ Church Cathedral, and on 6 June 1601 received the vicarage of Flore, Northamptonshire, another college preferment, which he retained with his prebend until his death.
He officiated at the opening of the Bodleian Library in 1602, and on 24 September of that year became vicar of Weedon Beck, Northamptonshire, a preferment which he resigned in 1604.
By his wife, Anne Hamden, he had a daughter Alice, married to Richard Corbet, afterwards successively bishop of Oxford and Norwich.
During the same year he published a learned work called An Answere to a certaine treatise of the Crosse in Baptisme intituled A Short Treatise of the Crosse in Baptisme,Oxford, 1605, dedicated to Richard Bancroft, archbishop of Canterbury, whose chaplain he was.
Hutten was the author of a play entitled Bellum Grammaticale, based on Andrea Guarna's 1512 work of the same name.