After sitting in Ordinary for ten years she was in active commission for the War of the English Succession fighting at Beachy Head and Barfleur.

She was in active commission for the last half of the War of Spanish Succession but fought in no major engagements.

She made two forays in to the Baltic though the bulk of her late career was spent as guardship at Portsmouth.

[3] She was ordered on 9 June 1677 to be built at Woolwich Dockyard under the guidance of Master Shipwright Phineas Pett (until February 1678) then completed by Thomas Shish.

She took part in Admiral John Lord Berkeley's operations (an attack on Brest, France) in June 1694.

In 1695 she was under Captain Gabriel Hughes sailing with Peregrine, the Marquis de Carmarthen's Squadron.

[4] She was ordered rebuilt on 24 April 1706 at Portsmouth Dockyard under the guidance of Master Shipwright Thomas Podd.

[12][11] She was commissioned in 1708 under the command of Captain Richard Griffith for service Sir George Byng's Fleet.

Captain Thomas Smith commanded from 1710 until 1714 in the Mediterranean with Admiral Sir John Jenning.

[Note 2] She was recommissioned in 1718 under Captain Archibald Hamilton for service in the Mediterranean with Sir George Byng's Fleet.

She fought at the Battle of Passero[3] on 11 August 1718[15] capturing the 70-gun Spanish ship Principe de Asturias (the former HMS Cumberland).

[10] She was ordered on 18 November 1719 to be rebuilt to the 1719 Establishment at Portsmouth under the guidance of Master Shipwright John Naish.

The British Fleet made such a demonstration in the Baltic that the Russians laid up their ships and abandoned their designs on Sweden.

In 1735 she was assigned Captain Alexander Geddes as commander for service with Sir John Norris's Fleet at the Tagus off Portugal.

She underwent a middling repair between October and December 1742, She was finally broken at Portsmouth by AO 11 May 1762, and completed in May 1762.