Did the New Interest in News Become Sense of Paranoia and Uncertainty?

This is the period in which it printed newspapers, as we would recognize them, art on the continent and then make their way into the british isles. It's also the heyday of sort of polemical pamphlet publishing. So those fears of a catholic plot, at some points they were well founded, and at other points they were not. I think in 16 88, nothing can be taken for certain. A mary provides some fig leaf of legitimacy for william's invasion, but when she dies, i don't think anybody would have underestimated jacobite intentions or assassination plots thereafter.