I would contend that The Flight of the Earls was something that was not intended by Hugh O’Neill himself, that it was something that Hugh O’Neill stumbles into by accident rather than by intention: we don’t know of the motivation of any of the people who participated in it - we just can guess. But some historians, and John McCavitt would be among their number, who would contend that O’Neill, along with his other associates who fled, had been engaged in some type of conspiracy and had some notion of rekindling the war and renegotiating military support from Spain with a view to a future invasion of the country. I think that that is completely inconsistent with the character of Hugh O’Neill who was a pragmatic, realistic politician and who would have realised in 1607 that the likelihood of getting any military support from Spain was negligible, and that I believe that he personally engaged in the flight only because he believed that his life was somehow or other in danger and with a conspiracy being organised against him by Davies and the other officials in Dublin was going to lead, perhaps, to his imprisonment or even to his execution on some type of a trumped-up charge of conspiracy rather than the fact that he was actually engaged in conspiracy.