White put up a very articulate defence in the West Country, but was subsequently sent to London and imprisoned in Bridewell Prison.

A letter from him still survives, written a few weeks before his execution, and is addressed to Father Henry Garnet from prison, on 23 November 1591: "The morrow after Simon and Jude's day I was hanged at the wall from the ground, my manacles fast locked into a staple as high as I could reach upon a stool: the stool taken away where I hanged from a little after 8 o'clock in the morning until after 4 in the afternoon, without any ease or comfort at all, saving that Topcliffe came in and told me that the Spaniards were come into Southwark by our means: 'For lo, do you not hear the drums' (for then the drums played in honour of the Lord Mayor).

Being cut down alive, he rose to his feet, but was tripped up and dragged to the fire where two men stood upon his arms while the executioner butchered him.

[2] There is a stained glass window of Saint Eustace White in St. Mary's Catholic Church in Louth, where the martyr was born.

A book entitled Saint Eustace White: Elizabethan Priest and Martyr was written by Mark Vickers.