CANGI, CEANGI, or Cangani, ancient inhabitants of Britain, concerning whom antiquaries have been much divided. Camden discovered some traces of them in many different and distant places, as in Somersetshire, Wales, Derbyshire, and Cheshire. Baxter, again, supposed that the Cangi or Ceangi were not a distinct nation, but such of the youth of many different nations as were employed in tending the flocks and herds of their respective tribes. Almost all the ancient nations of Britain had their ceangi, or keepers of their flocks and herds, who ranged over the country in great numbers. This is the reason that vestiges of their name are to be found in so many parts of Britain, but chiefly in those parts which are most fit for pasturage. These ceangi of the different British nations, naturally brave, and rendered still more hardy by their way of life, went armed for the protection of their flocks from wild beasts; and these arms they occasionally employed in the defence of their country.