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46 Town of Cupar Sheet 5

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" The Castle of Cupar, of which no vestige now remains, seems to have been a place of considerable strength and importance, and was of course often the subject of fierce contention in the turbulent times of Robert I and David II. betwixt the adherents of Bruce & Baliol. In the two most memorable sieges which it maintained, it was defended by Churchmen. In the first it was held for Bruce by Robert Wishart, Bishop of Glasgow. He was forced to yield it to the celebrated Aymer de Valence, the general of Edward, and being taken arrayed in armour, was in that uncanonical garb, conducted a prisoner to the Castle of Nottingham. In the other it was defended for Baliol by William Bullock, an ecclesiastic of eminent abilities, whom Baliol had appointed Chamberlain of Scotland. This able sagacious and valiant churchman, for a long time successfully resisted the arms of Sir Andrew Moray the regent, the campaigner of Wallace, and the intrepid assertor of his country's honour, after the death of his friend. But the art of Robert the Stewart, the successor of Moray, succeeded where the bravery of Moray had failed. Sounding Bullock, he discovered him to be selfish and avaricious; and satisfying his predominant passion by an ample grant of lands, won him over from his duty. Bullock abandoned and betrayed his benefactor, yielded up the fortress committed to his charge, and with his numerous adherents swore fealty to David." Sibbalds Hist [History] of Fife page 399.

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At an early period the Macduffs, Thanes of Fife, had a castle here (Cupar) in the midst of the marshy grounds which bordered the Eden and St. Mary's Burn. It continued the seat of the court of the Stewardry of Fife, until the forfeiture of Alabny Earl of Fife" &c. Fullarton's Gazetteer of Scotland Vol [Volume] I p. [page] 292