Forward go in glad accord. L. Tuttiett. [Choral Festivals.] Written for the Coventry Choral Festival, 1867, and subsequently used on similar occasions at Peterborough, and elsewhere. Its first publication as distinct from printing in the foregoing festival books, was in Biden's Processional Hymns with Tunes, N. D. (Northampton. Authorized text in Church Hymns, 1871, No. 318.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)