Cupar
Cupar is a town, previous royal burgh as well as church in Fife, Scotland. It exists in between Dundee and also Glenrothes. According to a 2011 population quote, Cupar had a population around 9,000, making it the ninth biggest settlement in Fife, and also the civil church a population of 11,183 (in 2011). It is the historical county town of Fife, although the council currently sits at Glenrothes. The community is believed to have actually expanded around the site of Cupar Castle, which was the seat of the constable and was possessed by the earls of Fife. The area came to be a centre for judiciary as the region of Fife and also as a market town catering for both livestock and sheep. Towards the last stages of the 13th century, the burgh came to be the website of a setting up of the 3 estates - clergy, nobility and burgesses - organised by Alexander III in 1276 as a predecessor of the Parliament of Scotland. Although written information of a charter for the contemporary town was shed, evidence recommended that this existed as one of the many residential properties possessed by the Earls of Fife by 1294. During the center of the 14th century, the burgh began to pay custom-mades on taxable incomes, which probably indicated that royal burgh status was given at some time in between 1294 as well as 1328. The oldest paper, describing the royal burgh, was a grant by Robert II in 1381 to offer a port at Guardbridge on the River Eden to help increase trade with Flanders. This grant was officially identified by James II in 1428.