Old Photograph Men Cupar Fife Scotland

Old photograph of three men and a boy in Cupar, Fife, Scotland. During the middle of the 14th century, the burgh here started to pay customs on taxable incomes, which probably meant that royal burgh status was granted sometime between 1294 and 1328. The oldest document, referring to the royal burgh, was a grant by King Robert II in 1381 to give a port nearby at Guardbridge on the River Eden to help boost trade with Flanders. This grant was officially recognised by James II in 1428.



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