I'm hoping to go again in September. Because the village lives eternally in 1642, by the time the autumn comes around the villagers are aware of the risk of war. Parliament has already taken control of the major ports and news of that would certainly have reached Gosport.

Early in the year, it's just rumblings of fallouts between parliament and the king and thus villages can cheerfully dismiss rumours of forthcoming from visiting time travellers. Though they might be concerned about rumours of Papist uprisings in Ireland. There were a lot of wars in Europe at this time (from what I'm reading, this was a very violent period all round...), but they were probably too far away for the villagers to have any interst in.