O Lord, Increase Our Faith H. Loosemore
Henry Loosemore was born in Devon. He was a chorister and afterwards a lay clerk in one of the Cambridge colleges. At some time he was organist at King's College. In 1660 he became organist at Exeter Cathedral. He died suddenly in 1670 whilst in Exeter.
O Lord Increase Our Faith has incorrectly been attributed to Orlando Gibbons in the past, and in Gibbon's version, has the word "our" replaced by "my". However a manuscript was found of Loosemore's which allowed the correct attribution and also the correction of the text.
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