Has presented her and Lady Arbella's New Year's gifts to the Queen, who has taken a special liking to the Countess's gift. The Queen told Lady Stafford that she would be careful of Lady Arbella, to whom the Queen has sent a token "which is not so good as I Could wish it," compared to what Lady Arbella gave the queen. Asks her not to share the news of the Queen's expressing her care of Arbella with others.