Word: turncoats
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...read between its courteous lines your feeling that I have recanted my former progressive notions, am a turncoat and a renegade...
People knew better in the seventeenth century. The testimony of Titus Oates, religious turncoat, political renegade, all-but felon and a confirmed liar was accepted by the government of England as sufficient to send scores of persons to execution and imprisonment. He was a witness worth having. One on Whom legislatures could rely. And besides, how much more conducive to unbiased statements were the howling streets of London and the death-fires of Peopes in effigy than the stultified academic stillness of Langdell Hall...