Validity of written guarantee

No special promise to be made by any person to answer for the debt, default or miscarriage of another person, being in writing and signed by the party to be charged therewith or some other person by him thereunto lawfully authorised, shall be deemed invalid to support an action, suit or other proceeding to charge the person by whom it was made by reason only that the consideration for such promise does not appear in writing, or by necessary inference from a written document.