Abduction, Marriage and Money in Restoration London

The best route to a quick fortune in the seventeenth century was to marry an heiress ideally with her parents blessing. But if the latter was proving difficult, abduction became a popular alternative amongst London’s wilder set of penniless young men.
N.A. Pickford’s discussed his new book 'Lady Bette and the Murder Of Mr Thynn', which explores the disastrous consequences of these pressures on one young woman’s life.