Cupar
Cupar is a community, 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 biggest settlement in Fife, and the civil church a population of 11,183 (in 2011). It is the historic county town of Fife, although the council currently rests at Glenrothes. The community is believed to have grown around the site of Cupar Castle, which was the seat of the constable and was owned by the earls of Fife. The location came to be a centre for judiciary as the county of Fife and also as a market community providing for both cattle and sheep. Towards the last phases of the 13th century, the burgh ended up being the website of a setting up of the 3 estates - clergy, the aristocracy and burgesses - organised by Alexander III in 1276 as a predecessor of the Parliament of Scotland. Although composed details of a charter for the modern-day town was shed, evidence suggested that this existed as one of the many residential or commercial properties had by the Earls of Fife by 1294. During the center of the 14th century, the burgh began to pay personalizeds on taxable incomes, which most likely implied that royal burgh status was granted at some point between 1294 as well as 1328. The earliest document, describing the royal burgh, was a give by Robert II in 1381 to give a port at Guardbridge on the River Eden to assist enhance trade with Flanders. This grant was formally identified by James II in 1428.