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A person who changes their mind or views or allegiances to suit the times. ?I?A? O? B?A?

Vicar of Bray, who did just that

Was this of any value?

well I enjoyed it thank you :-)

I hope it was, Rosalind!

PS I saw this answered at least five or six times - I think it baffled a lot of solvers.

At school we used to have to sing his song-

In good King Charles's golden days
When loyalty no harm meant
A good God- fearing man was I
And so I got preferment.
To teach my flock I never missed
Kings are by God appointed
And damned are they that dare resist
Or touch the Lord's annionted.

The refrain-
And this is Law that I'll maintain
Until my dying day, sir
That whatsoever king may reign
I'll still be the Vicar of Bray, sir.

Completely from memory so may be wrong. Of course, as with hymns and the Lord's prayer, I had absolutely no idea what it might mean!

I learnt it at school too, rosalind. I took it at face value at the time, but now it seems a bit puzzling - surely all that swapping between Protestant and Catholic was about 100 years earlier than either Charles?

Apparently there was religious shuffling between 1633 and 1715 as well as the earlier terrors, which still predates Charles 1. Odd?? I didn't understand the words anyway and no-one bothered to explain them. Like learning Latin declensions- no-one ever said what a declension was/is. My O level mark was 25% and that was the highest in my class!