Although you have not given the exact Act, I believe that you are talking about Act 3 because this is the act that begins the court room scene and contains an accusation by Giles Corey. At the end of Act 2, the reader finds out that Martha Corey, Elizabeth Proctor, and Rebecca Nurse have all been arrested. In the beginning of Act 3 Giles Corey tries all that he can to get the court to see that these are false acusations. In order to do this, he begins by making an accusation that Thomas Putnam is having his daugther, Ruth, accuse people of witchcraft so that he can buy their land. Corey's only proof is that he was given this information by a man who overheard Putnam tell another villager that his daughter gave him a "great gift of land" when she accused George Jacobs of witchcraft.
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