James White

In the churchyard of Fenwick, Scotland is the grave marker of James White. He was one of the six covenanting martyrs in that cemetery. He was shot to death by the order of Captain Peter Inglis because he was attending a forbidden prayer meeting. To add abuse upon abuse, the soldiers cut off White's head and used it as a football. On his tombstone reads the following six line verse:

This martyr was by Peter Inglis shot,
By birth a tyger rather than a Scot,
Who that his monstrous Extract might be seen
Cut off his head and kicked it o'er the green
Thus was that head which was to wear a Crown
A football made by a profane Dragoun.