Cupar
Cupar is a town, previous royal burgh as well as parish in Fife, Scotland. It lies between Dundee and also Glenrothes. According to a 2011 population estimate, Cupar had a population around 9,000, making it the nine biggest 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 town is thought to have grown around the site of Cupar Castle, which was the seat of the constable as well as was had by the earls of Fife. The location came to be a centre for judiciary as the county of Fife and as a market town providing for both livestock and lamb. Towards the latter stages of the 13th century, the burgh ended up being the website of an assembly of the 3 estates - clergy, the aristocracy as well as citizens - organised by Alexander III in 1276 as a predecessor of the Parliament of Scotland. Although created info of a charter for the modern-day community was shed, evidence recommended that this existed as one of the many residential properties had by the Earls of Fife by 1294. During the middle of the 14th century, the burgh began to pay personalizeds on taxable incomes, which possibly indicated that royal burgh status was approved at some time in between 1294 as well as 1328. The oldest paper, describing the royal burgh, was a give by Robert II in 1381 to give a port at Guardbridge on the River Eden to aid enhance trade with Flanders. This grant was officially acknowledged by James II in 1428.