The Queen is dead and you have been proclaimed King.

Begins: May it please Your Maty. Wee think it our duty humbly to accquaint your Maty that this Morning between seven and eight the Queen departed this life... Proclaiming your Maty...was performed... Wee send this to your Maty by the Earle of Dorset...

Ends: From the Council Chamber at St James's 1 August 1714.

The author is probably Southwell: an anecdote recounts how Addison was unable to write a satisfactory letter informing Hanover that the Queen was dead, so the "Lords of the Regency" employed Southwell, who wrote a straightforward business letter (The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, ed. James Sutherland (1975), p. 59).