Cupar
Cupar is a town, former royal burgh as well as parish in Fife, Scotland. It exists in between Dundee and also Glenrothes. According to a 2011 population price quote, Cupar had a population around 9,000, making it the nine largest settlement in Fife, and also the civil parish a population of 11,183 (in 2011). It is the historic county town of Fife, although the council now rests at Glenrothes. The community is thought to have grown around the site of Cupar Castle, which was the seat of the sheriff and was possessed by the earls of Fife. The area came to be a centre for judiciary as the area of Fife and as a market community catering for both livestock and also lamb. In the direction of the last phases of the 13th century, the burgh came to be the website of a setting up of the 3 estates - clergy, the aristocracy and also burgesses - arranged by Alexander III in 1276 as a predecessor of the Parliament of Scotland. Although composed details of a charter for the modern town was lost, evidence suggested that this existed as one of the many homes had by the Earls of Fife by 1294. Throughout the middle of the 14th century, the burgh started to pay custom-mades on gross incomes, which most likely meant that royal burgh condition was granted at some point between 1294 and also 1328. The earliest paper, describing the royal burgh, was a grant by Robert II in 1381 to give a port at Guardbridge on the River Eden to help increase trade with Flanders. This grant was formally acknowledged by James II in 1428.
