According to History of Parliament, Sir Edmund Baynham was knighted by the Earl of Essex in September 1599, though this wasn’t as honorable of an event as one might think. Those who were in cahoots with the Earl of Essex were known to be a major pain for the authorities, and Baynham certainly was no exception. Along with his fellow Damned Crew members, there is an account of the rabble-rousers rousing rabble at a local tavern, stripping down to their bottoms and parading around the streets of London armed with daggers and rapiers, attacking the watch.

The Damned Crew would later pay a hefty fine and serve in prison. Baynham would have a few more scraps with the law, mostly for anti-monarch speech and demonstration, and would even be condemned to death before his acquittal after paying a large amount of money. He was later implicated in the Essex rebellion and the Gunpowder Plot (his role was mainly staying quiet after learning of the plan). The captain of the Damned Crew ultimately left England and spent the rest of his years wandering Europe. His gang swiftly fell apart afterward, but they have been immortalized by their more fearsome portrayals in media.