Cupar Burghs (Commonwealth Parliament constituency)

Cupar Burghs
Former constituency
for the Protectorate Parliament
RegionScotland
Former constituency
Created1654
Abolished1659
Created fromScotland
Replaced bySt Andrews, Dysart, Kirkcaldy, Cupar, Anstruther Easter, Pittenweem, Crail, Kinghorn, Anstruther Wester, Pittenweem, Inverkeithing, Kilrenny, Burntisland

During the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, called the Protectorate, the Scottish burghs of St Andrews, Dysart, Kirkcaldy, Cupar, Anstruther Easter, Pittenweem. Crail, Dunfermline, Kinghorn, Anstruther Wester, Inverkeithing, Kilrenny and Burntisland were jointly represented by one Member of Parliament in the House of Commons at Westminster, elected in Cupar, from 1654[1] until 1659.

List of Members of Parliament

References

  1. ↑ Gardiner, Samuel Rawson (1899). The constitutional documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625-1660 . Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 496–497 – via Wikisource.


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