Maybe 'Celebrity Oak' would have been closer than 'Fornication Oak'? Queen Bess was a big deal back then and her arrival would have caused a bit of a stir. It was probably featured in 'Hey Nonny No!' magazine or whatever the contemporary equivalent was. Wasn't she in the habit of spending the summer undertaking long freebie jaunts across the countryside with her entourage? With the local nobles obliged to provide hospitality when she turned up on their doorstop? 'Rested' really might have just meant 'rested'.

Personally, I think 'Fornication Oak' is a terrific name for a neighbourhood and I'd be delighted to live there.

To confuse matters further, I think there's a longstanding feud over who's got the real 'Oak Of Honor' with a rival claim for another tree in Greenwich Park.

Anyway, it meant that we retained the Elizabethan spelling of Honor, as did the Americans, while all those -or endings mutated into -ours throughout the rest of the English language.