CHANGE OF COURSE • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Change of course

... side, becoming a rebel on political, not on religious, grounds. When, as time went on, the evils of the rebellion developed themselves more fully, he was already high in command, and so involved with his own party that he had not the resolution requisite for a change of course and renunciation of his associates. He would willingly have come to terms with the King, and was earnest in the attempt at the time of the conferences at Hampden Court. He strongly disapproved of ...

— The Pigeon Pie • Charlotte M. Yonge