Cupar
Cupar is a town, former royal burgh as well as parish in Fife, Scotland. It lies between Dundee and also Glenrothes. According to a 2011 population price quote, Cupar had a population around 9,000, making it the 9th largest negotiation in Fife, and also the civil parish a population of 11,183 (in 2011). It is the historical county town of Fife, although the council currently rests at Glenrothes. The town is thought to have expanded around the site of Cupar Castle, which was the seat of the constable as well as was possessed by the earls of Fife. The area became a centre for judiciary as the county of Fife and as a market community providing for both livestock as well as sheep. Towards the last stages of the 13th century, the burgh came to be the website of an assembly of the three estates - clergy, the aristocracy as well as burgesses - arranged by Alexander III in 1276 as a predecessor of the Parliament of Scotland. Although written information of a charter for the modern town was lost, evidence suggested that this existed as one of the many buildings owned 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 meant that royal burgh standing was given at some point in between 1294 as well as 1328. The oldest record, describing the royal burgh, was a give by Robert II in 1381 to provide a port at Guardbridge on the River Eden to help increase trade with Flanders. This grant was formally recognised by James II in 1428.
