Raisbeck’s 34-line handwritten draft is addressed simply to ‘Sir’, he advises that he ‘cannot with satisfaction to [him]self aid the further progress of the Bill’. He continues, ‘I therefore take the liberty of addressing you as chairman of the compy. to tender my resignation as one of their Sol.s & to beg the favour of your making such a communication as you deem requisite or proper to the other proprietors on the subject’.