Books attributed to Guevara in the PLRE.Folger Database
There were 33 books attributed to Guevara found in the PLRE; 25 were printed in English, three in Latin and Greek, one only in Latin, and four in French. As more books were printed in the vernacular, it is clear that they were sought after by readers to add to their libraries.
11 of the identified volumes were close matches to our edition of the Diall. Only one was considered a partial match since it was identified as very likely being a French edition. There were a significant number of other works by Guevara, numbering at 21. This is due to the large amount of editions recorded which were not fully identified. Since the Diall is a pseudo-historical account of Marcus Aurelius' life, and Aurelius himself wrote an autobiography, De Vita Sua, the entries could be easily confused in instances where both the title and the author were not clearly stated.
The makeup of ownership includes six scholars, four clerics, two merchants, two estate landowners, three statesmen, one craftsman, three women, one lawyer, four court officials, four landowners, and three recusants.
It is interesting to note the presence of the three recusants. Recusants were individuals who refused to attend Church of England services and were fined one shilling a week for their refusal. This fine was enacted by the Act of Uniformity in 1559 by the Elizabethan regime. The book was written by a Catholic Bishop and its translation was first published during the reign of Mary I, thus this aspect may have influenced the perspectives and opinions of the work itself.