Elizabeth Wilmot

In 1665 John Wilmot attempted an abduction of the wealthy heiress Elizabeth Malet, after which he spent three weeks in the Tower of London. Elizabeth Malet married John Wilmot two years later.

According to Wikipedia: Samuel Pepys described the attempted abduction in his diary on 28 May 1665:

Thence to my Lady Sandwich's, where, to my shame, I had not been a great while before. Here, upon my telling her a story of my Lord Rochester's running away on Friday night last with Mrs. Mallett, the great beauty and fortune of the North, who had supped at White Hall with Mrs. Stewart, and was going home to her lodgings with her grandfather, my Lord Haly, by coach; and was at Charing Cross seized on by both horse and foot men, and forcibly taken from him, and put into a coach with six horses, and two women provided to receive her, and carried away. Upon immediate pursuit, my Lord of Rochester (for whom the King had spoke to the lady often, but with no successe [sic]%29 was taken at Uxbridge; but the lady is not yet heard of, and the King mighty angry, and the Lord sent to the Tower.[12]

18-year-old Rochester spent three weeks in the Tower, and was only released after he wrote a penitent apology to the King.[3]

Rochester attempted to redeem himself by volunteering for the navy in the Second Dutch War in the winter of 1665, serving under the Earl of Sandwich.[13] His courage at the Battle of Vågen, serving onboard the ship of Thomas Teddeman, made him a war hero.[13] Pleased with his conduct, Charles appointed Rochester a Gentleman of the Bedchamber in March 1666, which granted him prime lodgings in Whitehall and a pension of £1,000 a year.[14] The role encompassed, one week in every four, Rochester helping the King to dress and undress, serve his meals when dining in private, and sleeping at the foot of the King's bed.[3] In the summer of 1666, Rochester returned to sea, serving under Edward Spragge.[13] He again showed extraordinary courage in battle.[15]

Upon returning from sea, Rochester resumed his courtship of Elizabeth Malet.[16] Defying her family's wishes, Malet eloped with Rochester again in January 1667, and they were married at the Knightsbridge chapel.[17]

In October 1667, the monarch granted Rochester special license to enter the House of Lords early, despite being seven months underage.[3] The act was an attempt by the King to bolster his number of supporters among the Lords.[18]