[1] She fought in the War of the English Succession, including the Battle of Barfleur, before being rebuilt at Deptford in 1699, remaining as a 70-gun third rate.

[2] During the War of Spanish Succession she was mostly in the Mediterranean fleet and fought at the capture of Gibraltar and the Battle of Málaga in 1704 before being extensively repaired between 1710 and 1712 at Portsmouth Dockyard.

Burford served in the Baltic in 1715 and 1717 before returning to the Mediterranean to fight the Spanish at the Battle of Cape Passaro in 1718.

[5] She was ordered in April 1677 to be built at Woolwich Dockyard under the guidance of Master Shipwright Phineas Pett (until February 1678) and completed by Thomas Shish.

[6][2] HMS Burford was commissioned on 15 December 1679 under the command of Captain John Perryman until 30 January 1680 for transport to Chatham.

[6] Like most of her sister third rates of the Thirty Ship Programme HMS Burford was ordered rebuilt in June 1696 under contract by Edward Snelgrove of Deptford.

[9][2] HMS Burford was commissioned in 1700 under Captain Simon Foulkes as guard ship at Sheerness, She was part of the Fleet that escorted HRH King William III to Holland in 1700.

She sailed with Admiral Sir George Rooke’s Fleet on 19 July for operations at Cadiz, Spain.

On the 19th of September, after accomplishing little the Fleet sailed for Home detaching HMS Burford with a squadron of smaller ships and troop transports for the West Indies .

In 1710 she sailed back to Home Waters then returned to the Mediterranean in 1711 with the Broad Pennant of Captain Charles Cornwall.